There is a story of a farmer who had a horse that ran away.

His neighbor came by and said, “Oh, that’s terrible.”

The farmer said, “You never know.”

The next day the horse came back, and it was leading two other wild horses. The neighbor said, “That’s wonderful.”

And

the farmer said, “You never know.”

Later, his son was training one of the wild horses, and while riding the wild horse, he fell off and broke his leg.

The neighbor came by and said, “That’s terrible.”

The farmer said, “You never know.”

The Cossack army came through recruiting everybody, taking away all the able young men. They didn’t take the farmer’s son because he had a broken leg.

The neighbor came by and said, “That’s wonderful.”

Andthe farmer said,

“You never know.”

And so it goes.